In a previous blog article we wrote about how to Use RSS to stay in contact. This is a great way of getting return visitors to your site. One big drawback with RSS is it is hard to track how many subscribers and how often the feed is actually used.

A great service now owned by Google is FeedBurner. With FeedBurner you can enter your rss feed and it will create a new link that allows you to advertise. When people signup for this feed it gives you feed tracking, statistics, and more ways for visitors to subscribe.

You can also burn different feeds so you can have a main feed, certain categories, or any other option you can imagine.

From our last post a few weeks ago “Translators Wanted” we had an outstanding amount of comments, emails, and coupons given out. In the next release of 68 Classifieds we will be including the following language files:

• Bosanski
• Bulgarian
• Dutch
• French
• Spanish

Hopefully with us having all these language files it will help current and future customers from having to do a lot of work to get 68 Classifieds running in your language.

We are looking for some people that would be interested in translating a file from English to your language. For anyone that translates the file we will give you a $100 coupon good for anything on this site. We are mainly needing the following languages:

• French
• Spanish
• Dutch

If you are fluent in a different one then we can probably extend the offer to you as well. Please contact us before translating to make sure someone else hasn’t already started.

Here is a link to the file.
Here is a link to instructions for modifying it.

We are proud to announce that 68 Mods has just been redone. The sole purpose of the new site is to help you find third-party developers, modifications, modules, payment gateways, and templates for 68 Classifieds. The new site is built entirely of 68 Classifieds v4 with a few modules added in.

The goal for this site is to help centralize all the mods in one place and making searching for a particular mod easy. Another nice feature is the ability to rate and review both modules and developers. So if you have worked with a particular developer or module then rate it so other users can see what to use and what to avoid.

1. Can you tell us a little about you or your site.

LabSales.com.au is the first of many planned websites under the same label, some of which will be in different languages. It is a “Scientific Classifieds Marketplace” where people can buy and sell scientific equipment. We have a huge number of categories, over 400 in fact and our goal has been to simplify as much as possible the process of buying and selling. I think we have achieved that.

2. I see Hills Web Design in the footer did they design your site?

Actually, I am “Hills Web Design” and this site has been developed for my client. We are a small, growing company and have been operating for just over 1 year now and this project has been probably the largest we have taken on. Using and modifying 68classifeds has been the easy part, the time consuming aspect from a web developers point of view has been the constant cries from the client, “can the site do this?” and the answer has almost always been “Yes!”

3. Since you are Hills Web Design do you offer design or modification work for 68 Classifieds?

Yes, I would be happy to do some design and/or 68 Classifieds modification work. Just visit Hills Web Design and get in touch.

4. What made you choose 68 Classifieds?

Well, there wasn’t really many classifieds systems to choose from and I initially chose this system because of the active community of people using it. The site has been quite heavily modified from the “out of the box” package, and 68classifieds lends itself very well to being modified.The support from the developers and other users via the forum is second to none. As a web developer, the flexibility of this system and the support that has been provided has made my choice of 68classifeds a good one indeed.

5. Are you using any modules with your site?

Yes, we are currently using numerous modules, some of which were developed outside of 68classifieds. We are using, Ad reporting, Incomplete listings reminder, a “Banner Advertising” module and a “Bulk Upload System” which allows to inject ads in bulk directly into the system, this is a must for a large classifieds site like this one.

6. Any additional details you would like to share?

Thanks for the support from the developers and the community! I look forward to building more sites with your software and I will be purchasing numerous licenses from you guys in the near future as we expand our operations internationally.

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